Collection: "Righteous Among the Nations" Bouke and Froukje Koning.
Bouke Koning was born in 1915 in Akkrum, the Netherlands.
Froukje Koning was born in 1914 in Heerenveen, the Netherlands.
This collection includes:
- Three testimonies (in Dutch) of Bouke Koning, recorded in 1956, on September 9, 1989, and on April 20, 1990.
In the testimonies:
- Activities in the underground.
- Hiding people in his house in Bilthoven, beginning in August 1942.
- His imprisonment in December 194 ...
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Collection: "Righteous Among the Nations" Bouke and Froukje Koning.Bouke Koning was born in 1915 in Akkrum, the Netherlands.Froukje Koning was born in 1914 in Heerenveen, the Netherlands.

This collection includes:- Three testimonies (in Dutch) of Bouke Koning, recorded in 1956, on September 9, 1989, and on April 20, 1990.

In the testimonies:- Activities in the underground.- Hiding people in his house in Bilthoven, beginning in August 1942.- His imprisonment in December 1943 and his release in February 1944.- His imprisonment in March 1944 and deportation to the Vught camp.- His transfer to a camp in Germany in September 1944, internment in various camps, and liberation from the Gross - Rosen camp by the Soviet Red Army in 1945.

Also in the collection: - The text of the audiotape No. 752 with the testimony (in Dutch) of Froukje Koning.- Letters (in Dutch) dated January 10, 1944 through June 1944, from Bouke Koning in various camps in the Netherlands, to his wife Froukje in Groenekan, the Netherlands.- Letters (in Dutch) dated December 22, 1943 through March 1944, from Froukje Koning in Groenekan, the Netherlands, to her husband in various concentration camps in the Netherlands.- Correspondence (in Dutch) from the years 1945 - 1993, between Bouke Koning in the Netherlands and comrades from the underground living in the Netherlands and in Israel.- Dutch identity documents dated October 31, 1941, for Bouke and Froukje Koning.- Identity tags for Bouke Koning from the period of his internment.- A registration card, dated June 25, 1945, in the name of Bouke Koning.- Dutch newspaper articles on the underground activities of the Konings.- A eulogy (in Dutch) by Bouke Koning for his wife, after her death on April 24, 1998.

Notes:- Bouke Koning was a gardener at the "Werkplaats" school in Bilthoven. When the deportations of Dutch Jews to camps began, he joined a group of the school's teachers in underground activities hiding Jews. He also hid people in his house in Bilthoven. Bouke and Froukje Koning, who had joined the "Westerweel Group" underground, were recognized in 1964 as "Righteous Among the Nations" by Yad Vashem in Jerusalem. - See Audio Cassette No. 752 in the Ghetto Fighters' House Museum Archives. Close